HRW says thousands Iraqis fleeing IS kept waiting by Kurdish forces
BEIRUT,— The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Peshmerga forces are stopping thousands of civilians fleeing territory held by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) for up to three months at...
View ArticleU.S. judge asked to expand order blocking Iraqi and Kurds’ deportation
DETROIT, Michigan,— The American Civil Liberties Union asked a U.S. judge on Saturday to expand an order that temporarily blocks the deportation of 114 Iraqis in Michigan, to cover Iraqis nationwide,...
View ArticleGerman judge asks Yazidi man to speak Kurdish to prove Syrian nationality
NUREMBERG,— An asylum case in Germany hinges on whether a family are Kurds from Syria or the Ukraine, and the father’s claim that they were persecuted Yazidis. “[The judge] said that he has no doubt...
View ArticleMalala Yousafzai visits Iraq’s displaced children at refugee camp in Kurdistan
HEWLÊR-Erbil, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— In her first visit to Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Yousafzai met displaced children at a tent school in the Hassan Sham refugee camp...
View ArticleU.S. judge halts deportation of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals, Kurds
DETROIT,— A federal judge in Michigan halted on Monday the deportation of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals from the United States, the latest legal victory for the Iraqi nationals facing deportation in...
View ArticleIraqi Kurds resume immigration to Europe amid crises in Kurdistan
SULAIMANI, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— Kurdish people have once again started to migrate to European countries as the crises in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region have become further complicated. Part of the...
View ArticleKurdish refugees anxiously await decisions by Swedish immigration office
STOCKHOLM,— Kurds in Europe are hopeful that they are told soon whether they will be allowed to stay or will be sent back to their homelands. “I cannot wait any longer. I will either start a new life...
View ArticleA bomb hits Kurdish refugee camp in Makhmur, northern Iraq
Deadly explosion at Kurdish refugee camp was airstrike, statement MAKHMOUR, northern Iraq,— An explosion on Wednesday caused deaths in a Kurdish area of Iraq’s northern Nineveh province, home to Kurds...
View ArticleSix migrants from Iraqi Kurdistan freeze to death while trying to cross into...
HEWLÊR-Erbil, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— Six people, including four children and a woman, died of cold on Tuesday while trying to illegally cross the Mawaran River at the border between Turkey and Iraqi...
View ArticleUK deports 26 Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers, imprisons 70: monitor
LONDON,— At least 26 Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers have been deported from Britain and more than 70 imprisoned in UK jails awaiting deportation. Inmates and advocates claim there is a secret Iraqi-UK...
View ArticleIraqi Kurdistan extradites suspected killer of 14-year-old girl to Germany
BERLIN,— Iraqi Kurdistan has extradited a 20-year-old Iraqi suspected of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl in Germany last month, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Saturday. “I’m glad...
View ArticleIraq slams Germany for circumventing justice to extradite suspected Kurdish...
BAGHDAD,— Iraq has criticized German federal police for picking up the suspected murderer of a teenage girl from authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan. German prosecutors have argued that they were within...
View Article20 years a refugee, Iranian Kurds stage protest outside UN office in Erbil
HEWLÊR-Erbil, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— Kurdish families from Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhelat) continued their protest for a third straight day outside the headquarters of the United Nations in Iraqi...
View ArticleOver 280 migrants from Iraqi Kurdistan have drowned in Aegean Sea in 5 years
SULAIMANI, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— As many as 289 people from Iraq’s Kurdistan Region have drowned in the Aegean Sea while trying to immigrate to Europe over the last five years, said an Iraqi...
View ArticleGerman visa for $12,000 in Iraqi Kurdistan: Der Spiegel
BERLIN,— Syrian refugees in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region have allegedly travelled to Germany and claimed asylum with the help of smugglers exploiting weaknesses in the visa control system at the German...
View Article100 police officers ‘sacked’ in Iraqi Kurdistan over human trafficking
HEWLÊR-Erbil, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— At least 100 policemen were reportedly fired by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on the charge of human trafficking from Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s northern...
View ArticleTurkish fighter jets bomb alleged PKK positions in Iraq’s Sinjar and Makhmour
HEWLÊR-Erbil, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— Turkish warplanes bombed several areas in Sinjar and Makhmour in northern Iraq on Thursday night. Turkish jets conducted airstrikes against alleged PKK targets...
View ArticleOver 1,000 doctors left Iraqi Kurdistan due to economic crisis
SULAIMANI, Iraq’s Kurdistan region,— More than one thousand doctors have migrated out of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region over the last four years because of the economic crisis, the ministry of health said on...
View ArticleThree Iraqis suspected of planning attack arrested in Germany
BERLIN,— German police arrested three Iraqi refugees suspected of planning an Islamist-motivated attack, the federal prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. Two of the three suspects, identified as...
View ArticleIraqi Kurdish man confesses to murder of 14-year-old German girl
BERLIN,— The trial of Ali Bashar, accused of raping and killing a teenage girl, has commenced under tight security. The defendant has confessed to the murder but has denied the rape charge. A...
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